Moshe Sniedovich

MOSHE SNIEDOVICH

m.sniedovich@ms.unimelb.edu.au

Moshe Sniedovich obtained his BSc in Agricultural Engineering (Technion, Israel, 1968) and then worked as a Planning Engineer in the Ministry of Agriculture (Israel, 1968-1972) before commencing his PhD in Water Resources and Systems and Industrial Engineering (University of Arizona, USA, 1972-1976). He then spent three years as a post doc - one year in Princeton University (1976/7) and two years at IBM Thomas J Watson Research Centre (1977-9) - before joining the National Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (NRIMS) in South Africa (1979-89). In 1989 he joined the University of Melbourne (Australia) where he is currently a Reader in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

Moshe's research and teaching interests are in the areas of sequential decision making, interactive computing and modeling and composite optimization. His publication record consists of one book and over eighty refereed articles. He has been awarded numerous grants for the development of multimedia educational resources for OR/MS that eventually led to the tutOR project. Moshe has also been very active on the international OR/MS scene. He served as IFORS VP (representing APORS) for six years (1998 - 2003), is in charge of the IFORS tutORial project, is the Founding Editor of IFORS On-line Encyclopedia for OR/MS, and is a member of IFORS Educational Resources Committee.